July 1, 2024 • 55 mins
T TIME with Theresa - Season 4, Episode 36 “ My Favorite Frank”. Hosted by Theresa Farrell. Tonight's guest is Actor, Writer and Comedian Frank Failla. T TIME with Theresa is aired live on Strong Island Television from Paradise Studios NY - www.strongisland.com
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Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
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Time. I'm so glad you're joiningme today. It is July first people,
we're in July. I'm gonna talkabout my weekend real quick and then
get to my guest. Friday,I spent the day with my lovely friend
Donna Morales. I love her todeath. She's like my girl. She's
helping me with a bunch of stuffin the acting industry, you know,
going through headshots and helping me withmy reel and just you know, she
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knows her stuff, so she's niceenough to do that for me. And
we had lovely I made my autotopepie and she been out a lovely charcouterie
and it was lovely, had alittle wine. It was a beautiful day
with my girl Donna. So thankyou, Donna, and I can't wait
to have you over by me.Saturday. I went out to dinner Saturday
night for my sister will Want NicoleCanis Jacy's birthday and that was lovely.
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Mom and Dad went, my sisterand everybody, my daughter was there and
it was great. And Sunday islaundry day. I always do Laundry on
Sunday, and then last night wasthe screening of Pancakes and Syrup and that's
Tom Dedario and I. He playsTom and I play Sophia. And we
filmed that actually right here in frontof Beautiful Paradise Studio is ins Pequa and
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there were over two hundred people thatshowed up, a lot of fellow comics
and people that were in the movieand it was lovely. We had a
blast. So shout out to Roband up Rob and Tom, and that
is Kansas Caane and my own Carmineis there and hello Griffin. Sorry Griffin
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Bell right who Okay, good,I didn't write it down. I'm sorry
Griffin. Just met Griffin last night. Candace Cane came out to support.
Thank you, and my girl KathyArnold was there, and my friend Ozzie
was there. There were a bunchof people there, so it was the
movie was great and everyone loved it. Thank you and murdered by the mob.
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Just gonna say, murdered by themob. There I am is Bunny
it is. There's the website,thank You Murdered by THEEMOP dot com.
Go to the website. See whenal shows are going on in the city
at the Iron Bar. It's thelongest running murder mystery show in Manhattan,
and I'm excited to be part ofthat. And I am gonna get to
my in studio guest because I hadthis man on my show five years ago
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when I was at another studio,and I said, it's time to bring
him back. He's an actor,he's a writer, he's a comedian.
Frank Fiella is in the house andhe plays my on screen husband a lot.
How are you. I am verywell, thank you for having me
back. I'm glad you're I've beenglad to have you back because, like
I said, it's been a whileand you and I have accomplished so much
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in the last five years. Thingshave changed for us. Yes, all
in a good way, thank God. Yes, amen, you know career
wise and playing your playing your onscreen husband. Yes, a lot of
people think we're actually bad. Wehave this. We have this natural banter,
chemistry and banter. And I meaneven just before uh dealing with something
and she's she's telling me what todo and I'm saying, it's just anyways
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yelling at me, and I waslike, yelling at you. Felt married
I'm like, I know, we'rejust we just got it anyway. So
I want everyone to get to knowyou. Anyone who doesn't you know,
But you grew up on Long Island. I did, right, went to
Calhoun Yes high school. Yeah,in a class of eighty five. Yes.
And in school were you into sportsor were you into the theater?
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No? I was not into theatre. And I tried out of the sports
teams. Uh the football team itwas it was walk on, so everybody
made it. I didn't get toplay very often. And then I tried
out for the baseball because I reallyloved baseball, but I didn't make the
cut. As they say, allright, all right, it happens,
all right, yeah, because usuallysee the sports at theater any chorus or
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whatever. Yeah. So what didyou want to be when you grew up?
Like, did you have aspirations asto what you wanted to do for
a car? I remember being alittle kid and saying that I wanted to
be a cop, and I rememberstanding out. I lived on a on
a cul de sac at the endof the cul de sac, which,
of course with the street, Iwould stand there in direct traffic and if
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there was a car, a carcame by like every every hour, you
know, so I would direct trafficand and uh, there are a few
people that would drive around and therewas a lot of them would stop and
then I would. So you wentright into the police academy after after school.
No, no, I tried collegefor a minute. It just wasn't
for me. I worked on workedon Wall Street for about a year.
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Hated it. And I'm sorry,Dad, but he wanted me to follow
in his footsteps, and it justwasn't for me. And then prior to
that, I worked on a dryice factory. I cut dry ice.
Oh that's cool, yep. Iwas a team job. I was.
I was nineteen and I was wasthe I was nineteen and I was probably
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making like twenty six thousand dollars ayear, so I was you know that.
Yeah, and it was and itwas good. And that lasted,
uh about a year, and thenI almost cut my finger off on theano.
That could be a very dangerous,yeah, because they would cut the
ice for the airlines. So theywere called Ogden's because Ogden, I guess,
did the did the food. Sothat so the the it was a
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it was a small it was asmall square that you had to be and
so you have to cut it reallyclose. And I wasn't paying attention,
and I cut the thumb. Andthen after that my dad got me the
job on Wall Street. And Idon't know which was more painful, cutting
the thumb, king on Wall Street. I got to be honest with you.
And then but you did join thepolice Academy. And after that I
went to New York City, MSright, and from EMS I went to
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and it was April nineteen ninety onethroughout April two thousand and eleven. Yes,
and we have a pick there.That's a long time ago. Let's
look at you. You look likeI was twenty twenty four in that picture
I got any academy and you lookthough you look like you're seventeen. But
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that's a long time ago, along time ago. And yeah, and
thank you for your service. Andwhere exactly did you work? What precinct
were you in when the I wentto out of the academy, I went
to the seven seven, which wasthe Bedstye Crown Heights area. Yeah,
so back then it was it wasnot a desirable area to work. It's
well gentrified now. And I wasthere for fifteen years. I stayed there
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fifteen years, and people told methat was probably fourteen years long than I
should have been there. And thenI got promoted to sergeant. Yeah,
you retired as a sergeant. AndI went to the fifth Priescinct, which
was Chinatown and then uh for twoand a half years. And I did
two and a half years in MidtownSouth, which is Times Square right right
right, And I retired after twentyin a day. That's it, twenty
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and a day. Yeah. Iwent to work one day, stood on
the corner of forty fifth and seventhand said, I don't think I want
to do this anymore. Really,so I didn't wow. And then when
you retired, because again you knowyou're young when you retire, it's only
twenty eleven. So fourth, whatdid you want to do to eat up
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some time? Well, I thought, foolish me, I was going to
play golf and go fishing and youknow the great outdoors. Yeah, that's
what I thought. And then andthen my wife at the time ran off
to work and I was home withthe kids, which should have been the
first red flag mom I was.I was home with the kids. I
wouldn't say nestling mister mom, butI was home with them for the summer,
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and that at that point they couldwipe their own well, they were
eleven and eleven, My son waseleven, my daughter was seven. Yeah,
so, but they still needed tobe entertained. Oh, absolutely,
So the idea of playing golf andfishing went right out the windows. And
then I had spoken to a friendof mine who's an attorney, and he
says, Yesterdad, I try realestate. Okay, So I went took
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the real estate class in twenty eleven, and I became a realtor November one
of twenty eleven, right, anddoing it ever since and doing it ever
since. Yeah. So obviously Isaid, you're an actor, writer,
and comedian. Yes, what camefirst? Comedy? Comedy came first,
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and we have your first talk aboutfirst, we've got your first headshot.
No, thank you very much.They are that's gotta be circa nineteen ninety
five. We all had black andwhites back then, you know, including
me. And then then I couldshow up the pick thank you of him
doing stand up? There you onstage. I don't know when that was.
Yeah, but again, how didyou still have that shirt? By
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the way, do you really Iwas worth it, thank you. But
how did you get into comedy?Did someone tell you you're funny? Did
you take a comedy class? Yeah? I mean we we all we all
think we're funny or we are funnyamongst our friends and family and stuff like
that. Definitely, So I hadalways wanted to take the class. Now,
I most people don't believe this,and those that know me a long
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time don't remember it. I wasextremely debilitatingly introverted and shy. Really,
yes, And I started to noticethat my son around around the fifteen years
age of he was also starting toshow signs of being shy, and I
wasn't gonna have it. So wetook the class at not Governance at the
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Brokerage with Rich Walker and Peter Balesand Steve Lazarus. Yes, so we
took the class. Uh and fromthere my comedy carew was one. Nick
did it for a little bit,yeah, but he was with school,
you know, he's still in highschool and stuff. And then then what
happened was he he stopped doing itand he outgrew his set because he was
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you know, the jokes were morefor being a fifteen year old. So
so he went out and did it. And I have to say that it
now I know a lot about it, but I never knew the story that
you did this with your son,which is really really cool, and it
worked because he's he's got a veryoutgoing personality now and he's he's funny and
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he's a good kid. Yeah,he is my daughter, Yes, thank
you. My daughter had mentioned aboutdoing it as well, and she's got
she's got a very funny sense ofhumor as well. But unfortunately when she
was gonna do it, then shegot involved in something else and she's never
had a chance to do it.And you know, she's in college now
and she's leaving. She's leaving,Uh but you know for Amsterdam. Oh
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is she Oh? Good for her? Yeah, So if she wants to
do it when she comes back,yeah, that's up to her. We'll
maybe we'll take it together. It'dbe fun. That's great. Hey,
listen, you know what I haveto take out to take my first break.
But stay right there. We'll beback with Frank Fayela after this.
Don't go away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that looked
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like me. She stands for beinga voice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home
a self care routine makes me feelmy best. I'm very proud of the
difference that we're making. It.To see that impact in my community inspires
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me to work even harder for everyonearound me. All Right, everybody having
a good time, That's what Ithink. Ali, So we are live
Paradise Studios, New York. Giveyourself a round. Be plus coming out
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tonight. Well, Hi there,Teresa, It's jian Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparentlyyou have a great talk show called
Tea Time on Strong Island TV.I want you to have continued great success
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and have a lot of fun.It sounds like you're having a lot of
fun, and that's pretty much thekey to everything, isn't it. So
continued success, I'm proud of you. Have a great day, Teresa.
Bye, Hey, anybody, welcomeback to Tea Time. It's July first,
and I'm so glad you're joining me. Frank Fayella is here. He's
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an actor and a writer and acomedian, and he plays my on screen
husband a lot because we have chemistrytogether to and We're gonna keep talking about
the chemistry we have. It wasn'tjust five minutes ago that we were No.
I mean we know each other foryears and we're really, really,
really good friends and we tell eachother everything. But getting back to you
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in comedy, So how lovely togo with your son? And so he's
not introverted like you were because youknow what you went through and you didn't
want for him to go through thesame thing. So you take the class
with rich and Steve and Peter.Did you take one class with them?
No, we took two. Tookwe took the class. Did did our
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graduation show? Right? And then? I'm not I don't think it was
like back to back. I thinklater about a year later, give a
take, and we took the Yeah, took the class because you know,
they say, right, what youknow? And obviously a lot of you
comedy has to do with you beinga cop and you know and being a
dad and you know, and well, actually that's my when I first wrote
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that, my my my original fiveminutes, five or seven minutes set nothing
to do with with being a copor really, well now it does now.
But back then, what did youstart? What did you start out
with well, I'm sorry. Therewere a couple of couple of jokes about
being a cop and being a rookie, and then uh the rest was about
being married. Okay, lot ofself deportating. Yeah, it's done.
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We've done. We've both done.Yes. So now now I've I've taken
those jokes, I've tweaked them toto to to my current situation. I've
made some uh some jokes about onlinedating. Some some He's very funny people,
very very very very fun And whatI do, like my jokes come.
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I try to make them from actualexperience and conversations. Yes, so
I'll take I'm going to be writinga lot of new material after this.
Yes you are, Yes, youare. So how are you doing stand
up now? Uh? I say, Scott be because I don't know,
like ten years? Is it tenyears? Because when you were tired in
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twenty eleven, it's like, howhow long did you wait before you jumped
on this high school? My son? My son was eleven when I retired.
Yeah, so his team when wetook the class, so four years?
So whatever that is due to math. I don't do math. I
don't do math either. Whatever,change and give me at the register.
It is fine. I don't count. I don't know, so it's got
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to be about ten years. Yeahsto be. And you and I met
about I think we met nine eightyears ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and I thought I found you veryvery funny. I love your delivery.
Tell everybody because I didn't write itdown here. I usually write it
down here tonight. But it's FrankFayeler on Facebook and Frank Fayla on Instagram.
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Yeah it's it's my name originally,but again, you could, you
know, go look see where he'sperforming. What you Yeah, you know,
we both aren't doing as much standsup these days as we used to
do. We're doing more acting,which is what actually we prefer. Yes,
yes, but you know there's somethingabout this, you know, is
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great. I mean I don't dotheater. I would love to do theater.
I don't sing or dance, gotto get I would love to do
I would love to do actual stagetheater. But when you do comedy and
you hear that audience laughing, andyou know that maybe for seven, eight,
ten minutes, whatever it is,your set is, you've taken somebody's
troubles away for just a little bit. Yeah, it makes it all worth
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it absolutely. Now, growing up, who was your favorite favorite comics to
watch? Did you have any?No? No, because I didn't.
I never I never thought about beinga stand up comedian. I was a
class clown, you know. Didyou ever like watching any specific comics?
I remember watching Bill Cosby in theninety it was I guess I was the
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nineties yeah, uh that that andthen uh Eddie Murphy. But I never
thought about doing stand up. Soand now even now people say, oh,
who's who's your Who's your favorite comedian? And I really don't have one
because I don't watch them because afear of of either through transference, taking
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a joke thinking it's original, oror you know, inadvertently stealing a joke.
You know, I don't ever wantto I don't ever want to have
that that that reputation. People havehave likened my comedy to that of Rodney
Dangerfield because it's very self deprecating.Yes, you know, but I don't.
I don't just style. Yeah,I don't. I don't really have
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a famous, right, someone thatyou really watched? Cool? So I
wanted to know the first time yougot on stage at Brokerage that was the
graduation show. That's a graduation show. So what you do is you take
the class at the brokerage and thenI think this was two three, three,
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four weeks or something like that.It was. It was an eight
week class. Is it eight week? And your eight eight eight weeks and
then the eight is your show?So tell me about that performance that night.
I remember that because I told peoplethat I was doing the show.
Oh yeah, you bring your friends. There was everybody, sixty people of
the audience. I believe it wasfor me and Nick. Obviously my son
performed as well. They got adouble header. And I was so nervous.
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And when you get that first laugh, it's like it's like it's not
even yeah, but it's it's it'sit's sort of like being in sweltering heat
and then someone just throws a bucketof cool water on you. Yeah,
and he's just and then and it'sjust it rolls. But you know,
back then, my my my performanceor delivery of comedy was was was the
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what's known as monologue comedy topic premisepunch. So it's it's topic premise punch,
joke after joke after joke, rightand then and now of course,
having worked with many different coaches,comedy coaches, you know, Paul Bond
and Stevie gb Yes, yeah,you know, just to name a few.
Yeah. They they helped me kindof make it a little bit more
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long form comedy. It's not justand and everything segues into it. So
it's it's almost it's almost like aday in the life of me, you
know. So it's like it isalmost yeah, yeah, but it's you
know, I wouldn't call it aone man show, but it's it's it's
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just evolved. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So now when you get
on stage, if you had todo time, how much can you do?
Now, if I did every jokethat I wrote, the good,
the bad, and the ugly,I could probably get twenty five to thirty
minutes. However, I'm I'm asolid ten to fifteen minute comedian, and
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twelve seems to be my sweet spot, you know. I also, I
like, I don't venture out intoaudience. You don't speak to the audience,
No, I don't. I don'tunless somebody's and and unless somebody's like
doing something and I'm not talking aboutlike like being on their phone or something
like that. You want to beon your phone to be on your phone.
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I don't care, just but Idon't. I don't. I don't
participate with the audience because here's why. And there are people that are very
good at it. Well pants,you don't know what's going to happen.
And you know Arcie Smith, whowas a open he used to do the
for The Chew. He used tobe the opening comedian, you know,
for the Chew. Yeah, JoeyKohler for for for his show. If
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that's the warm up coming. Ifyou don't know what you're doing, you
can get away from you real fast, and then the audience takes over the
show and you don't want them tugabout Manny very good at at audience.
Richie. Yeah, he warmed upfor Odd to Oz many many many years.
So if you don't, if youdon't know how to do it,
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I wouldn't recommend it, But peopledo what they want to do. I
I just won't. I did itwhen I first started out in comedy in
the early nineties, I am seeda place in Jersey and there was just
a couple there and I just Ijust I had to say something yeah,
and it went well, No,I don't you never know how. I've
had that a couple of times whereI've i've you know, pointed something out
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or uh, but I didn't.I didn't engage them, right because I
you know, because everybody actually seeeverybody acts like when I go to a
comedy show, they act like,I hope the commedian doesn't pick on me,
but they won't want the comedian topick on them. I mean,
look at Don Rickles was an insultcomics and there's a guy that people wanted
to be insulted. Yes, youknow, but I don't. All right,
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okay, all right, So anyonewho comes to the show, don't
worry about me. It's not it'snot going to happen. Does is when
you do stand up? Now?Does your son and daughter come to see
you? No? Not at all. I don't think my daughter has ever
come to a show. Really,yeah, okay at all. My sister's
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never seen me. Yeah, myson obviously saw me because he would we
would do shows together. But tojust come out and see the show.
Now, okay. Now, myex she used to come to all the
shows. She was very supportive.Yes, yes, yeah, No.
My husband came to a couple andthen he's like I'm done with this.
Yeah, well, you know,but she would come to all him and
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occasionally she would say, you knowwhat, I've seen those comedians, or
she didn't want to go right,depending on who was on the but she
very rarely said no, right,okay, all right, it's good now.
As far sex, that's a wholedifferent kidding. No, he's not
a reason right, Yeah, wellwe all have I know, I can't
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think we all have exes, butyes, I have one myself, So
I mean, you know, that'sa whole next question, that's a whole
subject, different show. We're gonnawe'a take it to the break. Let's
take it into the break because weneed one. We'll be back. We'll
be back after this. Don't goaway. Wonder Woman was everything to little
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girls, especially that looked like me. She stands for being a voice for
people that need a voice. Myorganization renovates homes for people with disabilities,
and when I come home a selfcare routine makes me feel my best.
I'm very proud of the difference thatwe're making, and to see that impact
in my community inspires me to workeven harder for everyone around me. Hi,
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way you say my name time.Hey, everybody, Welcome back with Frank
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Fayella he's an actor, he's awriter, he's a comedian, and he
plays my on screen husband a lot. And we're going to talk about what
we've been in together and show aclip because we're funny. Anyway, twenty
seventeen you decided, or twenty sixteenaround there, you decided I want to
get into acting. Yes, okay, yes, all right, so you
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parlored, you're on stage and youtook it. You took it to acting
and you you did a short filmcalled an eight Yes, and you played
LeRoi. Yes. It was asci fi sort of superhero sci fi movie.
It was really good. I andthe director yeow, he's got to
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his last name is an African nam. I couldn't say it if you wanted
me to, but yeah, hewas a great guy. He's a good
director, and I wish he wouldhave made it into a feature because it
was. It was a really goodfilm. But the funny thing about that
was I had signed up for BackstageOnline and I saw the the ad,
so I applied. And this isthe first thing. I have no idea
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about acting, nothing, So Iget did you say it didn't take any
kind of claes, I'm gonna dothis I'm gonna do this. This is
it. So I love a manwho knows what he wants. So I
get the audition and he says thathe was doing back then it was FaceTime.
There was no zoom, so hisFaceTime auditions. So I I.
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He gives it to me for aThursday night, six o'clock. I go
down the basement. So it's niceand quiet, and I'm sitting there and
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'mwaiting, and I realized I never gave
him my phone number. So Imy gosh it. So I send him
a mess, said I said,I said, I realized, now at
six thirty, I never sent youmy phone number. I said, is
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there's still a possibility. He goes, I'm doing auditions tonight. I will
let you audition again tomorrow. Ohgood. So now I made sure I
gave him my phone, and soI had. I did the audition,
and I didn't expect anything out ofit, but I forgot he was a
scientist. Bring to the table.Well, he's a scientist. He has
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an older son. I guess hewas about to say, sixteen seventeen years
old, and he's got this power. I had it and then it was
passed on to our son where hecould go back in time. And the
reason why I couldn't do it anymoreis I was going back in time to
try to find a cure for mywife's cancer. It doesn't work out that
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I could save her, and Ican no longer go back in time.
But he has the ability and itshows up out of nowhere, and so
now I got to deal with that. So it sounds like a great It
was. It was great as ashort. Ww did you film that?
Some of it was in my house, some of it was some other people's
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houses, Okay? And I LongIsland? Okay? On Long Island.
After that, you did us anothershort, cow Matilda, and you played
Father Gabriel also with Yao. Okay. Nice. You see, when you
work with somebody, they know theylike you. Yes, they like your
work. And we went down tohe I think his father had a house
down in uh Atlanta, Georgia,I think it was, So we drove
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down. We drove down to Georgiaand Uh and we filmed that over the
course of a weekend. It wasa lot of work because we crammed a
lot into the week, not evena week. It was it was the
weekend. Wow. Uh, andI think we had to be out of
there by Monday, Yeah, Monday, maybe Tuesday. But it was crammed
in a lot. Is that thefather you ever traveled to film something?
Uh? Yeah, yeah as ofnow, okay. And then after that,
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twenty eighteen you did Weird Q,which was another short you played Tom.
Yeah. That was that was thatwas fun to do. It was
a little weird, no pun intended. It was. It was about a
dating site. Who knew foreshadowing right? Really and and it was uncomfortable because
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there it was. I don't reallyremember the whole premise of it, but
it was about it. But Iremember that I had to uh take my
shirt off, and I was,you know, this is not someone that
really should be taking his shirt off, So I was. I was a
little uncomfortable, uh doing that,but it was it was, Uh,
it was fun. It was wassix s eate minutes or something like that.
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That's great. And the guys thatfilmed it, I forget where we
filmed. I think was in Northport, Yeah, in their house yeah uh.
And they were two great guys.I guess there were college kids and
it was it was fun to tofilm twenty nineteen was very busy if for
you, my friend, you didFamily Obligations. Great movie you played Frank
I did. That was a Thatwas a movie we see about family and
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being obligated to family. So Iwas playing a older person who was dying
and I had no family and excepta nephew, and the nephew we were
strained and never never dealt with thefamily. And now he he gets whined
that his father died, which wouldhave been my brother. His father dies
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and they're doing a funeral and thenthey get a phone call because my brother
would have been taking me to mydoctor's a bar. So now there's nobody.
So now now film, he said, Now he's got to take responsibility
for me, and we kind ofbond over the over the course of of
the film, and then at theend he did short. You played Johnny
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Carbone, The Usual Deal. Yes, that was a lot of fun.
That was a lot of fun.That was my first gangster, Yes,
and that was we filmed that inBrooklyn at a bar. Yeah, and
again a long day. It was. It was well into well into uh,
you know, talking about gangster.The next thing you did was a
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TV series. You played a Doctorthat actually we were both in and we
filmed it, and I know Ifilmed it in baside mob mentality, which
looks like it's picking up again fromwhat I saw. I don't know access.
I'm just saying, but it's justsomething that we did. We didn't
have any scenes together, have anyscenes. Yeah, my scene. Actually
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they only filmed the pilot. Yes, and uh, they were going to
have the scene with me in thepilot and they said, you know what,
let's hold it off to the nextepisode. And there was never another
episode. I was not aware thatthey were trying to revive it. Well,
I just saw I just saw somethingon Actors Access there there. Yeah,
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well I would I would love tohave the role. Yeah, yeah,
yeah absolutely if isis did Jada isthe creator, director, producer,
showrunner, whatever you want to callit. So ices if you're listening,
I would love too for the doctorrole again. The Doctor Roll twenty twenty
did cover Drama, which was aTV series played Russell. No, No,
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that wasn't a that was a no, that's what I have he No,
it wasn't a TV series. No, okay, it was a short.
I'm not really sure what it was. It was fun and interesting to
everything was shot point of view.Oh cool. So it was supposed to
be a dinner party. Yeah,and everybody and there was some cheating going
on and amongst the couples and stuff. So so uh, but everybody filmed
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their scene on their own and thenhe put it together. So my daughter
actually helped me. She she shewas because there was pler. I had
to pick up the plates. Soshe was handing me the plates and I
was putting down and and uh.And then she was giving me the dialogue.
Yeah, and she was giving methe dialogue and it was it was
fun to work with. So yeah, So I'm not really sure what what
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what what that guy's idea was.And I think he's I'm not sure.
I think they actually may be fromLondon. Uh, the people that that
created that, I'm not sure though, I could be wrong. And if
I'm sorry. Detective it says isit a d D NO A Wilderness of
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era? Do you remember that?Oh? Yes, miniseries? Yeah,
and I I played detective in that, and uh, I never saw it.
That was about a McDonalds. Isaw to watch it and then I
got but that was about it's aboutthe murders. I believe it was in
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the seventies. The McDonald's, notMcDonald's the restaurant. The family was the
McDonald's. Uh. The wife andthe two kids are murdered. He is
arrested and accused of the murder,and he has always maintained his innocence.
But there was a lot of alot of weird stuff, like there was
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no forced entry, there was nothingto support him having not done. He
was a military guy. I thinkhe was also a doctor in the military.
I'm not sure it could be mistakenon that, but that was very
interesting to film and my my actualscene, I'm actually lip syncing. Really
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yeah, they they they did it, so I guess someone else's voices the
real I don't know exactly. LikeI said, I never saw it,
but the wilderness yet it was aninteresting story. One you did Manhattan South,
which was that was a pilot.Yeah, that was a pilot I
did. Yes, that was astretch. That was yeah, always a
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stretch. And Heidi Heidi Hecker wasmy was my partner for that and uh,
and that was funny there that wasthey wrote that scene. Chris Cardona,
he was he didn't create it,but he helped write it. And
and uh, and was working toget it produced. And he made this
scene a little comedic because it wasit was a crime scene. And then
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Heidi was playing the neighbor who foundthe body. And I'm there guarding the
crime scene. So at the endI walk over and I kind of start
putting the moves on right. Soit was fun life conversation, midlife conversation,
which you played Mike de Luca.That was a short. And that
was with Maria. Uh. Yeah, well Maria Philippone is the director and
(36:38):
scatter wife. That was. Thatwas a great that Actually it's amazing how
art imitates life unbeknownst to me.I mean that story was actually my story.
And uh and I remember there's amonologue at the end and uh it
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was very heartfelt. And I hadasked Maria to sit my wife in my
line of vision, so even thoughI was talking to to Gina, I
was actually looking at Kathy and Iwas I was delivering the line to her.
Didn't work because she's left me anyway. So John Godbagio, great comedic
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short. Love it, Love it, Love it, I said, I
love it. That is that's believein Pat Maroon, Steve Leieve is a
great writer Maroon, and and he'sdoing he wants and he wants I think
I'm supposed to sling the secretary orsomething. Probably he mentioned it to me.
But Steve Beleieve is a great writer. And this is a spoof slash
(37:45):
takeoff of the Godfather. And we'reand we're garbage men, and we and
we we value garbage and and it'syou know, it's really great and and
you know what, it doesn't runvery long. Just I recommend you look
it up on YouTube don Barbargio andit's it's pretty funny. No. He
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put it into some some film festivalsthat got picked up, and I'm very
happy that he's gonna do it asecond demosophy because it was it was great.
All right, So your first networkseries was Yes, Yes, that
was my first network series and youplayed a retired postal worker. Yes.
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I mean it was nothing in thescene that would say, oh, he's
a postal worker, but that's whatthey had. So I was, now,
is that how you got your sag? No? No, how'd you
get I got my sag? Becauseafter sag, excuse me, after bull
I did a movie, yeah,with Michael Zagen called Zookay. I don't
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believe it ever came out. Okay, okay, Michael Zagan was the husband
in Marvelous Missus Mason. So Iplayed a doorman and so so I got
that. So now that made mesag eligible because I had the two right,
and then I got East New Yorkand that made me sag Yeah,
(39:15):
a must joint. Do we havea pick of you and Pee Wee Herman,
which we didn't put up before,But tell me how that happened?
And you were on the job atthe time, I was, Yes,
that was that's in Times Square.I'm going to say probably somewhere twenty ten.
He brought back his one man show, the Pee Wee's Playhouse, right
right, and he was doing thatand at the end he would come out
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and he would sign autographs. AndI was a big Pee Wee Herman fan.
Yeah, absolutely, I love PeeWee Herman. And so he took
up he took a picture with letme see the next pick. What's the
next pick after that one? Wegot after Pee Weee, after Pee Wee
Herman. Nope, nope, theone above it, nope, that one
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that's well, that's East New York. That's that was that was recent,
Yes, that was they may haveApril of twenty twenty three and may it
had Mother's Day May fourteenth of twentytwenty two. And that's so that's Richard
kind thank you and no pun intendedthe nicest man. Yeah, you could
ever meet yah and uh. Inbetween takes we would sit and talk and
(40:31):
and he would uh he was hewas interested in the fact that I was
a stand up comedian. Yeah,And it was a great, great experience
on that show. I got towork with with four of the leads in
the one scene and it was nice. Uh, and they were all so
just so nice. How how differentis doing network TV as as opposed to
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as to opposed to I mean,anything else you've done, it's it's it's
a lot of fun, it's alot of work because you know, they're
on a timeframe, so they wantto get everything done so so there's not
a lot of retakes, so theyreally want you to hit it as quickly
as possible. They'll do retakes forsafety and maybe a different shot, and
(41:21):
they're very they they want you tobe as as word perfect as possible.
You know, you know, youand I have a thing about that because
I work very hard to keep minetogether. And then you know, he's
helped me with some auditions and he'slike, I got to really keep it,
keep it. I try to keepit as close as close to word
perfect as possible. I mean sometimesthey'll give you depending on the word.
(41:44):
Like I remember in in in EastNew York. I kept saying there was
a line there where I said,oh, I I just I just made
a note, and he said,you can't say just because it sounds like
you just did it. It's aprevious note. Yeah, you know,
so so little things like that.It doesn't sound like much when you're when
you're delivering it, but then yourealize it changes the meaning. Well that's
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the whole thing. Just one word, one word, right. I know
with independent films that I've done,the directors have been very loose and they're
they're like, yes, as longas you're not as long as you're getting
the intent of the scene and theintent of the lines, yeah, will
you know, we'll work with youon it. Yeah. You did very
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COVID Christmas. You played Santa,You played Sana. Yeah, that was
a lot of fun. That wasa short, that was just a quick
short. It was because of thesupply chain issues that were going on with
China. Yes, and I didthat with Alex McKay. Yeah, and
I haven't seen Alex in forever.Yeah. And we were in Chris Cardona's
acting class together and he was myhead elf. I was Santa, right,
(42:50):
and of course I was, youknow, nasty, yelling, screaming,
not the Santa that you wouldn't expectto see at the mall. Oh
my god, twenty two. Youdid you Club and then you did so
Fortunate Fortunate Fortunado and you played SalvatoreEsposito. And that was also with Michael
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Fideli correct. And I believe he'sthe writer of that. I believe that
his movie. And I played hisbrother, Yes, and uh in the
movie, he's he's a screw up, you know, he's that one.
You know that that one family member. We all have it as much as
(43:30):
they tried. The only it wasn'tfor bad luck to have no luck.
And I'm not going to give itaway because it's as short. I recommend
you watch it. It was agreat movie. Deborah Markowitz was was part
of that as well, and h. E J. E J. Costa
and uh, he was in itas also. It was, it was
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and we filmed that at least ourscenes we filmed at the upstairs with the
Belmour movie. Yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, So it was.
It was a lot of fun,and it was it was natural because we
were talking in the movie and thescene we're talking about, Hey, remember
when we used to roll the meatbulls with Grandpa and yeah, and and
I remember that, I mean mygrandparents. My grandfather didn't roll the meat
(44:15):
bulls, but I remember watching mygrandmother and my mother make the meat bulls
on a Sunday and making the sauceand absolutely, so it was. It
was, It was fun. Itwas a bit nostalgic. My sister's weddings
wedding played yes, yes, father, and that was done with I feel
(44:35):
bad, I'm drawing a blank.It's in the garage productions. Ken Frank
was the director and he was alsowas a director and writer of both that
and Family Obligations. Yes. FamilyObligation, Yes, which we touched on.
Family Obligations was a great, greatmovie. I really loved doing it
(44:59):
and I like work and with Kenyaand his wife Shanna touch you play Coach
Dorby. Yes, that was astudent film. Yeah, and I play
always fun to do that, andit's actually they I just it's so funny
you bring that up because I justgot an email saying that they released it
on YouTube. Oh cool. AndI and I play this like yelling,
(45:20):
screaming, militant type high school coachand these kids are slackers and I am
not having it. Yeah, andit's it's uh, it was a lot
of fun, so cool. Twentytwenty three, again busy, Busy,
busy, we showed the pick fromEast New York. You played a parole
officer, Yes, Phil Gustavsu Yes. And then we get to it's love,
(45:43):
bro, It's love, and it'sin love bro. You and I
you can show them, Yeah,yeah, we go. That was We
filmed actually at my house in thekitchen. We filmed in the dining room,
and we filmed in the living room. And that is you and I.
We had so much fun we didwith that movie. And the movie
is doing very well. It wasin a Bunch of Fur and Frank Fayela.
If you scroll down one we wereboth up for best Comedic Performance and
(46:07):
it went to Frank and I wasso thrilled. I know you were,
and I and I thank you forthat, But I really felt that it
should have been it should have beena it should have been a team thing.
And and because you're only as goodas your scene partner, and the
comedy doesn't work one way, ithas sea thing about our scene. Why
don't we show one of our scenesfrom the movie. All right, it's
(46:28):
love bro. Here we are.I can't hear him. You know,
you know what you're doing. You'reholding it wrong. Guys. Okay there
now you can see him? Okay, Hi, Hi, honey, Hi,
guys, I can't see you.You look great? Yeah, yeah,
we see you fine. No,no, no, I can't see
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you. Why is he so long? Speak up? So? So how's
Florida? Oh it's beautiful. Shewon't turn off the air conditioning. It's
very hot in New York. Toblasted the heat off? Lordia blasts the
air condition You are never happy.Look who's talking? You know we're trying
to talk to baby. What you'redoing is complaining. You're the one complaining.
(47:13):
So when I'm dead, shut offthe acne. Well, at least
I'll save some money on the electricbill. So, honey, have you
thought about moving down here anymore?I love it. It was so funny.
It was it was great. Thatwas film in my living room and
(47:36):
we had another scene and it wasa lot of fun. And I have
to say you and I got reallyreally beautiful accolades from people who saw it.
They were like, we wanted moreof the mother and father, especially
at the very very end. Ican't tell you what happens, but they
want to see. I guess ourreaction to what happened to how Sun.
But this is a great film.George Massimilla. George is watching maybe A
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maybe A part two of its StillLove, and it focuses on the parents.
It's still love or they're still together, still love. It. I
like that. I like that.Frank. Yeah, it was funny because
they were asking about seeing us more, but it was it was so much
fun. And again George Mussinilla forgiving us the opportunity. It was great.
Hey, listen, let's take mylast break and when we come back
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more with Frank, don't go away. We'll be back after this wonder woman
was everything to little girls, especiallythat looked like me. She stands for
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being a voice for people that needa voice. My organization renovates homes for
people with disabilities and when I comehome, a self care routine makes me
feel my best. I'm very proudof the difference that we're making. It.
To see that impact in my communityinspires me to work even harder for
everyone around me. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa from teen Times. What's
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my show about? I interview peoplein the entertainment industry, producers, directors,
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Teresa Barrow? And who you know? And whoy Jisa Barrow? Terresa Barrow?
Who's Teresa Barrow? Now Terresa Beryl? All right, I love you.
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Hey everybody, Welcome back to teTim Frank Fayella. He's an actor,
writer, comedian and my on screenhobby. Shout out to Anne watching
and Michael Nowtton and Bruno and Gregand Michelle everyone watching. Thank you please
like tea time, please share it. So yeah. So then we did
Graveyard Medium also together. We hadno scenes together, but we were in
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that. That's also Maria Philippone andthat was a wonderful short that we did.
You played Joe, Yes and thehobby, the husband and the family's
feud. Now you played Nick thebarber. I did, and there were
times when we land rolls, andthere's times that we end up on the
cutting floor. Unfortunately they had tocut that scene. Yes, but you
(50:50):
did your scene with Joe Dinafrea.Yes, I was the barber. He
was in the chair. Yeah.And in the scene he's talking all big
and tough and right and he wassupposed to get whacked in the chair.
Yeah. You know, the guycomes in and I just stepped back and
then they stick an ice pick.And that was with Stu and yes,
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shout out to that. Unfortunately,I apologize watching I don't recall her last
name, but Bruce Soosha, I'mnot going to say it right. So,
well, that's the other day.I don't know if it was.
And then okay, so now wehave like three minutes left. So we're
in something together coming up called It'sAll About Me, which is with Millie
Michaels and again Maria Philip Palm.We're going to be filming that hopefully in
August. It's supposed to be Augusttwelfth, I believe is the unofficial.
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Okay, I'll be filming my sceneanother day because I won't be here.
Yeah, but we're not in anyscenes together, but we're in the project
together. So I wanted to,you know, give a shout out to
Millie and Marie about that as well. And what else do you have coming
up, my friend, because wehave three minutes. Well, I submitted
an audition today for Lord the Equalize. Yes, yes, singers, Cross
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Cross cross everything. I'm having agood year with auditions. Wait. Commercial,
Hello, you were in a major, major commercial that everybody and their
mother sees. You would you liketo tell everyone what the commercial is?
That's the Whites and Luxembourg asbestost commercial. Actually we did a commercial. We
didn't pull it for the show,but we did that cleaning air duct commercial.
(52:20):
Oh yes, yes, yes,and where we play husband and wife
and that with our son. Yeah, and you believe is in that and
John Roki. Yeah, we hada great time. Yes, So telling
about these three things that are coming. So I have a comedy show for
Laughter Saves Lives, a great organization, and that will be at Domenico's on
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July twelfth. I believe it's sixtyfive dollars per person, but includes dinner
and the show. And then onJuly thirteenth, I have a show at
Governor's with It was a good lineupwith Seiku Ali, who's also a police
officer. We did not work togetheras as cops, but we we got
to know each other through comedy.So he's producing that that said Governors in
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the giggle Room on on July thirteenth. Tickets for that would need to be
purchased in advance if you want togo, so go to the website.
Yeah. And then on the eighteenth, eighteenth, I'm doing a show at
the Gaston Street Pub. I believethat's a patchog or hot pog. I'm
not exactly sure which one. Andthat's with Terry perett Terry perett Is is
a very very funny comedy hypnotist andhe does his his routine. I want
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to be well, I want to, I don't. I want to hate
chocolate and I want well, No, he doesn't do that, and I
don't want to be yah, hedoesn't. He doesn't do that. What
does he do? He does comedy? So he has comedy. Well,
he doesn't do behavior modifications I needbut that's not what his thing is.
So he has u scenarios. Hehas scenarios and and he gets people from
(53:57):
the audience to come out. AndI really it's definitely different for a different
type of show. Yeah, I'llbe doing opening the show, you know,
good ten to fifteen minutes of comedationand bringing him on and good.
A lot of great place is inpatch talk out there. Yes, yes,
so that's what I got going on. That's good. I'm excited.
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I'm listen. Oh my god,it's so so fast. It does,
doesn't it. Yes, Oh,we had a good time. I did
always do. Anytime we get together, we have sue. It's so true.
Well listen, thank you for comingon, thanks and catching up.
Let's not wait another five years.Oh no, we're sona sona and we'll
be working together anyway. Listen.I want to thank everyone for watching tea
time. I appreciate it your support. Remember, tell everyone you love you
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love them, and I'll see younext week. Everybody, chow one name
(55:04):
bout town s.
Good evening and welcome to tee Time. Hey, everybody, welcome to tea
(01:25):
Time. I'm so glad you're joiningme today. It is July first people,
we're in July. I'm gonna talkabout my weekend real quick and then
get to my guest. Friday,I spent the day with my lovely friend
Donna Morales. I love her todeath. She's like my girl. She's
helping me with a bunch of stuffin the acting industry, you know,
going through headshots and helping me withmy reel and just you know, she
(01:48):
knows her stuff, so she's niceenough to do that for me. And
we had lovely I made my autotopepie and she been out a lovely charcouterie
and it was lovely, had alittle wine. It was a beautiful day
with my girl Donna. So thankyou, Donna, and I can't wait
to have you over by me.Saturday. I went out to dinner Saturday
night for my sister will Want NicoleCanis Jacy's birthday and that was lovely.
(02:12):
Mom and Dad went, my sisterand everybody, my daughter was there and
it was great. And Sunday islaundry day. I always do Laundry on
Sunday, and then last night wasthe screening of Pancakes and Syrup and that's
Tom Dedario and I. He playsTom and I play Sophia. And we
filmed that actually right here in frontof Beautiful Paradise Studio is ins Pequa and
(02:38):
there were over two hundred people thatshowed up, a lot of fellow comics
and people that were in the movieand it was lovely. We had a
blast. So shout out to Roband up Rob and Tom, and that
is Kansas Caane and my own Carmineis there and hello Griffin. Sorry Griffin
(03:04):
Bell right who Okay, good,I didn't write it down. I'm sorry
Griffin. Just met Griffin last night. Candace Cane came out to support.
Thank you, and my girl KathyArnold was there, and my friend Ozzie
was there. There were a bunchof people there, so it was the
movie was great and everyone loved it. Thank you and murdered by the mob.
(03:25):
Just gonna say, murdered by themob. There I am is Bunny
it is. There's the website,thank You Murdered by THEEMOP dot com.
Go to the website. See whenal shows are going on in the city
at the Iron Bar. It's thelongest running murder mystery show in Manhattan,
and I'm excited to be part ofthat. And I am gonna get to
my in studio guest because I hadthis man on my show five years ago
(03:49):
when I was at another studio,and I said, it's time to bring
him back. He's an actor,he's a writer, he's a comedian.
Frank Fiella is in the house andhe plays my on screen husband a lot.
How are you. I am verywell, thank you for having me
back. I'm glad you're I've beenglad to have you back because, like
I said, it's been a whileand you and I have accomplished so much
(04:10):
in the last five years. Thingshave changed for us. Yes, all
in a good way, thank God. Yes, amen, you know career
wise and playing your playing your onscreen husband. Yes, a lot of
people think we're actually bad. Wehave this. We have this natural banter,
chemistry and banter. And I meaneven just before uh dealing with something
and she's she's telling me what todo and I'm saying, it's just anyways
(04:32):
yelling at me, and I waslike, yelling at you. Felt married
I'm like, I know, we'rejust we just got it anyway. So
I want everyone to get to knowyou. Anyone who doesn't you know,
But you grew up on Long Island. I did, right, went to
Calhoun Yes high school. Yeah,in a class of eighty five. Yes.
And in school were you into sportsor were you into the theater?
(04:56):
No? I was not into theatre. And I tried out of the sports
teams. Uh the football team itwas it was walk on, so everybody
made it. I didn't get toplay very often. And then I tried
out for the baseball because I reallyloved baseball, but I didn't make the
cut. As they say, allright, all right, it happens,
all right, yeah, because usuallysee the sports at theater any chorus or
(05:19):
whatever. Yeah. So what didyou want to be when you grew up?
Like, did you have aspirations asto what you wanted to do for
a car? I remember being alittle kid and saying that I wanted to
be a cop, and I rememberstanding out. I lived on a on
a cul de sac at the endof the cul de sac, which,
of course with the street, Iwould stand there in direct traffic and if
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there was a car, a carcame by like every every hour, you
know, so I would direct trafficand and uh, there are a few
people that would drive around and therewas a lot of them would stop and
then I would. So you wentright into the police academy after after school.
No, no, I tried collegefor a minute. It just wasn't
for me. I worked on workedon Wall Street for about a year.
(06:01):
Hated it. And I'm sorry,Dad, but he wanted me to follow
in his footsteps, and it justwasn't for me. And then prior to
that, I worked on a dryice factory. I cut dry ice.
Oh that's cool, yep. Iwas a team job. I was.
I was nineteen and I was wasthe I was nineteen and I was probably
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making like twenty six thousand dollars ayear, so I was you know that.
Yeah, and it was and itwas good. And that lasted,
uh about a year, and thenI almost cut my finger off on theano.
That could be a very dangerous,yeah, because they would cut the
ice for the airlines. So theywere called Ogden's because Ogden, I guess,
did the did the food. Sothat so the the it was a
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it was a small it was asmall square that you had to be and
so you have to cut it reallyclose. And I wasn't paying attention,
and I cut the thumb. Andthen after that my dad got me the
job on Wall Street. And Idon't know which was more painful, cutting
the thumb, king on Wall Street. I got to be honest with you.
And then but you did join thepolice Academy. And after that I
went to New York City, MSright, and from EMS I went to
(07:09):
and it was April nineteen ninety onethroughout April two thousand and eleven. Yes,
and we have a pick there.That's a long time ago. Let's
look at you. You look likeI was twenty twenty four in that picture
I got any academy and you lookthough you look like you're seventeen. But
(07:29):
that's a long time ago, along time ago. And yeah, and
thank you for your service. Andwhere exactly did you work? What precinct
were you in when the I wentto out of the academy, I went
to the seven seven, which wasthe Bedstye Crown Heights area. Yeah,
so back then it was it wasnot a desirable area to work. It's
well gentrified now. And I wasthere for fifteen years. I stayed there
(07:50):
fifteen years, and people told methat was probably fourteen years long than I
should have been there. And thenI got promoted to sergeant. Yeah,
you retired as a sergeant. AndI went to the fifth Priescinct, which
was Chinatown and then uh for twoand a half years. And I did
two and a half years in MidtownSouth, which is Times Square right right
right, And I retired after twentyin a day. That's it, twenty
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and a day. Yeah. Iwent to work one day, stood on
the corner of forty fifth and seventhand said, I don't think I want
to do this anymore. Really,so I didn't wow. And then when
you retired, because again you knowyou're young when you retire, it's only
twenty eleven. So fourth, whatdid you want to do to eat up
(08:35):
some time? Well, I thought, foolish me, I was going to
play golf and go fishing and youknow the great outdoors. Yeah, that's
what I thought. And then andthen my wife at the time ran off
to work and I was home withthe kids, which should have been the
first red flag mom I was.I was home with the kids. I
wouldn't say nestling mister mom, butI was home with them for the summer,
(08:56):
and that at that point they couldwipe their own well, they were
eleven and eleven, My son waseleven, my daughter was seven. Yeah,
so, but they still needed tobe entertained. Oh, absolutely,
So the idea of playing golf andfishing went right out the windows. And
then I had spoken to a friendof mine who's an attorney, and he
says, Yesterdad, I try realestate. Okay, So I went took
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the real estate class in twenty eleven, and I became a realtor November one
of twenty eleven, right, anddoing it ever since and doing it ever
since. Yeah. So obviously Isaid, you're an actor, writer,
and comedian. Yes, what camefirst? Comedy? Comedy came first,
(09:41):
and we have your first talk aboutfirst, we've got your first headshot.
No, thank you very much.They are that's gotta be circa nineteen ninety
five. We all had black andwhites back then, you know, including
me. And then then I couldshow up the pick thank you of him
doing stand up? There you onstage. I don't know when that was.
Yeah, but again, how didyou still have that shirt? By
(10:05):
the way, do you really Iwas worth it, thank you. But
how did you get into comedy?Did someone tell you you're funny? Did
you take a comedy class? Yeah? I mean we we all we all
think we're funny or we are funnyamongst our friends and family and stuff like
that. Definitely, So I hadalways wanted to take the class. Now,
I most people don't believe this,and those that know me a long
(10:26):
time don't remember it. I wasextremely debilitatingly introverted and shy. Really,
yes, And I started to noticethat my son around around the fifteen years
age of he was also starting toshow signs of being shy, and I
wasn't gonna have it. So wetook the class at not Governance at the
(10:48):
Brokerage with Rich Walker and Peter Balesand Steve Lazarus. Yes, so we
took the class. Uh and fromthere my comedy carew was one. Nick
did it for a little bit,yeah, but he was with school,
you know, he's still in highschool and stuff. And then then what
happened was he he stopped doing itand he outgrew his set because he was
(11:09):
you know, the jokes were morefor being a fifteen year old. So
so he went out and did it. And I have to say that it
now I know a lot about it, but I never knew the story that
you did this with your son,which is really really cool, and it
worked because he's he's got a veryoutgoing personality now and he's he's funny and
(11:30):
he's a good kid. Yeah,he is my daughter, Yes, thank
you. My daughter had mentioned aboutdoing it as well, and she's got
she's got a very funny sense ofhumor as well. But unfortunately when she
was gonna do it, then shegot involved in something else and she's never
had a chance to do it.And you know, she's in college now
and she's leaving. She's leaving,Uh but you know for Amsterdam. Oh
(11:52):
is she Oh? Good for her? Yeah, So if she wants to
do it when she comes back,yeah, that's up to her. We'll
maybe we'll take it together. It'dbe fun. That's great. Hey,
listen, you know what I haveto take out to take my first break.
But stay right there. We'll beback with Frank Fayela after this.
Don't go away. Wonder Woman waseverything to little girls, especially that looked
(12:24):
like me. She stands for beinga voice for people that need a voice.
My organization renovates homes for people withdisabilities, and when I come home
a self care routine makes me feelmy best. I'm very proud of the
difference that we're making. It.To see that impact in my community inspires
(12:45):
me to work even harder for everyonearound me. All Right, everybody having
a good time, That's what Ithink. Ali, So we are live
Paradise Studios, New York. Giveyourself a round. Be plus coming out
(13:07):
tonight. Well, Hi there,Teresa, It's jian Yorke from General Hospital.
I am just checking in because apparentlyyou have a great talk show called
Tea Time on Strong Island TV.I want you to have continued great success
(13:31):
and have a lot of fun.It sounds like you're having a lot of
fun, and that's pretty much thekey to everything, isn't it. So
continued success, I'm proud of you. Have a great day, Teresa.
Bye, Hey, anybody, welcomeback to Tea Time. It's July first,
and I'm so glad you're joining me. Frank Fayella is here. He's
(13:52):
an actor and a writer and acomedian, and he plays my on screen
husband a lot because we have chemistrytogether to and We're gonna keep talking about
the chemistry we have. It wasn'tjust five minutes ago that we were No.
I mean we know each other foryears and we're really, really,
really good friends and we tell eachother everything. But getting back to you
(14:13):
in comedy, So how lovely togo with your son? And so he's
not introverted like you were because youknow what you went through and you didn't
want for him to go through thesame thing. So you take the class
with rich and Steve and Peter.Did you take one class with them?
No, we took two. Tookwe took the class. Did did our
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graduation show? Right? And then? I'm not I don't think it was
like back to back. I thinklater about a year later, give a
take, and we took the Yeah, took the class because you know,
they say, right, what youknow? And obviously a lot of you
comedy has to do with you beinga cop and you know and being a
dad and you know, and well, actually that's my when I first wrote
(15:01):
that, my my my original fiveminutes, five or seven minutes set nothing
to do with with being a copor really, well now it does now.
But back then, what did youstart? What did you start out
with well, I'm sorry. Therewere a couple of couple of jokes about
being a cop and being a rookie, and then uh the rest was about
being married. Okay, lot ofself deportating. Yeah, it's done.
(15:22):
We've done. We've both done.Yes. So now now I've I've taken
those jokes, I've tweaked them toto to to my current situation. I've
made some uh some jokes about onlinedating. Some some He's very funny people,
very very very very fun And whatI do, like my jokes come.
(15:43):
I try to make them from actualexperience and conversations. Yes, so
I'll take I'm going to be writinga lot of new material after this.
Yes you are, Yes, youare. So how are you doing stand
up now? Uh? I say, Scott be because I don't know,
like ten years? Is it tenyears? Because when you were tired in
(16:04):
twenty eleven, it's like, howhow long did you wait before you jumped
on this high school? My son? My son was eleven when I retired.
Yeah, so his team when wetook the class, so four years?
So whatever that is due to math. I don't do math. I
don't do math either. Whatever,change and give me at the register.
It is fine. I don't count. I don't know, so it's got
(16:27):
to be about ten years. Yeahsto be. And you and I met
about I think we met nine eightyears ago. Yeah, yeah, yeah,
and I thought I found you veryvery funny. I love your delivery.
Tell everybody because I didn't write itdown here. I usually write it
down here tonight. But it's FrankFayeler on Facebook and Frank Fayla on Instagram.
(16:49):
Yeah it's it's my name originally,but again, you could, you
know, go look see where he'sperforming. What you Yeah, you know,
we both aren't doing as much standsup these days as we used to
do. We're doing more acting,which is what actually we prefer. Yes,
yes, but you know there's somethingabout this, you know, is
(17:11):
great. I mean I don't dotheater. I would love to do theater.
I don't sing or dance, gotto get I would love to do
I would love to do actual stagetheater. But when you do comedy and
you hear that audience laughing, andyou know that maybe for seven, eight,
ten minutes, whatever it is,your set is, you've taken somebody's
troubles away for just a little bit. Yeah, it makes it all worth
(17:33):
it absolutely. Now, growing up, who was your favorite favorite comics to
watch? Did you have any?No? No, because I didn't.
I never I never thought about beinga stand up comedian. I was a
class clown, you know. Didyou ever like watching any specific comics?
I remember watching Bill Cosby in theninety it was I guess I was the
(17:57):
nineties yeah, uh that that andthen uh Eddie Murphy. But I never
thought about doing stand up. Soand now even now people say, oh,
who's who's your Who's your favorite comedian? And I really don't have one
because I don't watch them because afear of of either through transference, taking
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a joke thinking it's original, oror you know, inadvertently stealing a joke.
You know, I don't ever wantto I don't ever want to have
that that that reputation. People havehave likened my comedy to that of Rodney
Dangerfield because it's very self deprecating.Yes, you know, but I don't.
I don't just style. Yeah,I don't. I don't really have
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a famous, right, someone thatyou really watched? Cool? So I
wanted to know the first time yougot on stage at Brokerage that was the
graduation show. That's a graduation show. So what you do is you take
the class at the brokerage and thenI think this was two three, three,
(19:02):
four weeks or something like that.It was. It was an eight
week class. Is it eight week? And your eight eight eight weeks and
then the eight is your show?So tell me about that performance that night.
I remember that because I told peoplethat I was doing the show.
Oh yeah, you bring your friends. There was everybody, sixty people of
the audience. I believe it wasfor me and Nick. Obviously my son
performed as well. They got adouble header. And I was so nervous.
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And when you get that first laugh, it's like it's like it's not
even yeah, but it's it's it'sit's sort of like being in sweltering heat
and then someone just throws a bucketof cool water on you. Yeah,
and he's just and then and it'sjust it rolls. But you know,
back then, my my my performanceor delivery of comedy was was was the
(19:52):
what's known as monologue comedy topic premisepunch. So it's it's topic premise punch,
joke after joke after joke, rightand then and now of course,
having worked with many different coaches,comedy coaches, you know, Paul Bond
and Stevie gb Yes, yeah,you know, just to name a few.
Yeah. They they helped me kindof make it a little bit more
(20:15):
long form comedy. It's not justand and everything segues into it. So
it's it's almost it's almost like aday in the life of me, you
know. So it's like it isalmost yeah, yeah, but it's you
know, I wouldn't call it aone man show, but it's it's it's
(20:38):
just evolved. Oh yeah, yeah. Yeah. So now when you get
on stage, if you had todo time, how much can you do?
Now, if I did every jokethat I wrote, the good,
the bad, and the ugly,I could probably get twenty five to thirty
minutes. However, I'm I'm asolid ten to fifteen minute comedian, and
(21:00):
twelve seems to be my sweet spot, you know. I also, I
like, I don't venture out intoaudience. You don't speak to the audience,
No, I don't. I don'tunless somebody's and and unless somebody's like
doing something and I'm not talking aboutlike like being on their phone or something
like that. You want to beon your phone to be on your phone.
(21:21):
I don't care, just but Idon't. I don't. I don't
participate with the audience because here's why. And there are people that are very
good at it. Well pants,you don't know what's going to happen.
And you know Arcie Smith, whowas a open he used to do the
for The Chew. He used tobe the opening comedian, you know,
for the Chew. Yeah, JoeyKohler for for for his show. If
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that's the warm up coming. Ifyou don't know what you're doing, you
can get away from you real fast, and then the audience takes over the
show and you don't want them tugabout Manny very good at at audience.
Richie. Yeah, he warmed upfor Odd to Oz many many many years.
So if you don't, if youdon't know how to do it,
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I wouldn't recommend it, But peopledo what they want to do. I
I just won't. I did itwhen I first started out in comedy in
the early nineties, I am seeda place in Jersey and there was just
a couple there and I just Ijust I had to say something yeah,
and it went well, No,I don't you never know how. I've
had that a couple of times whereI've i've you know, pointed something out
(22:27):
or uh, but I didn't.I didn't engage them, right because I
you know, because everybody actually seeeverybody acts like when I go to a
comedy show, they act like,I hope the commedian doesn't pick on me,
but they won't want the comedian topick on them. I mean,
look at Don Rickles was an insultcomics and there's a guy that people wanted
to be insulted. Yes, youknow, but I don't. All right,
(22:49):
okay, all right, So anyonewho comes to the show, don't
worry about me. It's not it'snot going to happen. Does is when
you do stand up? Now?Does your son and daughter come to see
you? No? Not at all. I don't think my daughter has ever
come to a show. Really,yeah, okay at all. My sister's
(23:11):
never seen me. Yeah, myson obviously saw me because he would we
would do shows together. But tojust come out and see the show.
Now, okay. Now, myex she used to come to all the
shows. She was very supportive.Yes, yes, yeah, No.
My husband came to a couple andthen he's like I'm done with this.
Yeah, well, you know,but she would come to all him and
(23:32):
occasionally she would say, you knowwhat, I've seen those comedians, or
she didn't want to go right,depending on who was on the but she
very rarely said no, right,okay, all right, it's good now.
As far sex, that's a wholedifferent kidding. No, he's not
a reason right, Yeah, wellwe all have I know, I can't
(23:56):
think we all have exes, butyes, I have one myself, So
I mean, you know, that'sa whole next question, that's a whole
subject, different show. We're gonnawe'a take it to the break. Let's
take it into the break because weneed one. We'll be back. We'll
be back after this. Don't goaway. Wonder Woman was everything to little
(24:32):
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and when I come home a selfcare routine makes me feel my best.
I'm very proud of the difference thatwe're making, and to see that impact
in my community inspires me to workeven harder for everyone around me. Hi,
(25:00):
I'm Georgia Rose. Founder of Zancuda. You can watch me on the
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We call it Akazini and taro.When the four cups right side up,
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way you say my name time.Hey, everybody, Welcome back with Frank
(26:15):
Fayella he's an actor, he's awriter, he's a comedian, and he
plays my on screen husband a lot. And we're going to talk about what
we've been in together and show aclip because we're funny. Anyway, twenty
seventeen you decided, or twenty sixteenaround there, you decided I want to
get into acting. Yes, okay, yes, all right, so you
(26:37):
parlored, you're on stage and youtook it. You took it to acting
and you you did a short filmcalled an eight Yes, and you played
LeRoi. Yes. It was asci fi sort of superhero sci fi movie.
It was really good. I andthe director yeow, he's got to
(27:00):
his last name is an African nam. I couldn't say it if you wanted
me to, but yeah, hewas a great guy. He's a good
director, and I wish he wouldhave made it into a feature because it
was. It was a really goodfilm. But the funny thing about that
was I had signed up for BackstageOnline and I saw the the ad,
so I applied. And this isthe first thing. I have no idea
(27:22):
about acting, nothing, So Iget did you say it didn't take any
kind of claes, I'm gonna dothis I'm gonna do this. This is
it. So I love a manwho knows what he wants. So I
get the audition and he says thathe was doing back then it was FaceTime.
There was no zoom, so hisFaceTime auditions. So I I.
(27:45):
He gives it to me for aThursday night, six o'clock. I go
down the basement. So it's niceand quiet, and I'm sitting there and
I'm waiting. I'm waiting. I'mwaiting, and I realized I never gave
him my phone number. So Imy gosh it. So I send him
a mess, said I said,I said, I realized, now at
six thirty, I never sent youmy phone number. I said, is
(28:06):
there's still a possibility. He goes, I'm doing auditions tonight. I will
let you audition again tomorrow. Ohgood. So now I made sure I
gave him my phone, and soI had. I did the audition,
and I didn't expect anything out ofit, but I forgot he was a
scientist. Bring to the table.Well, he's a scientist. He has
(28:27):
an older son. I guess hewas about to say, sixteen seventeen years
old, and he's got this power. I had it and then it was
passed on to our son where hecould go back in time. And the
reason why I couldn't do it anymoreis I was going back in time to
try to find a cure for mywife's cancer. It doesn't work out that
(28:51):
I could save her, and Ican no longer go back in time.
But he has the ability and itshows up out of nowhere, and so
now I got to deal with that. So it sounds like a great It
was. It was great as ashort. Ww did you film that?
Some of it was in my house, some of it was some other people's
(29:11):
houses, Okay? And I LongIsland? Okay? On Long Island.
After that, you did us anothershort, cow Matilda, and you played
Father Gabriel also with Yao. Okay. Nice. You see, when you
work with somebody, they know theylike you. Yes, they like your
work. And we went down tohe I think his father had a house
down in uh Atlanta, Georgia,I think it was, So we drove
(29:33):
down. We drove down to Georgiaand Uh and we filmed that over the
course of a weekend. It wasa lot of work because we crammed a
lot into the week, not evena week. It was it was the
weekend. Wow. Uh, andI think we had to be out of
there by Monday, Yeah, Monday, maybe Tuesday. But it was crammed
in a lot. Is that thefather you ever traveled to film something?
Uh? Yeah, yeah as ofnow, okay. And then after that,
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twenty eighteen you did Weird Q,which was another short you played Tom.
Yeah. That was that was thatwas fun to do. It was
a little weird, no pun intended. It was. It was about a
dating site. Who knew foreshadowing right? Really and and it was uncomfortable because
(30:18):
there it was. I don't reallyremember the whole premise of it, but
it was about it. But Iremember that I had to uh take my
shirt off, and I was,you know, this is not someone that
really should be taking his shirt off, So I was. I was a
little uncomfortable, uh doing that,but it was it was, Uh,
it was fun. It was wassix s eate minutes or something like that.
(30:38):
That's great. And the guys thatfilmed it, I forget where we
filmed. I think was in Northport, Yeah, in their house yeah uh.
And they were two great guys.I guess there were college kids and
it was it was fun to tofilm twenty nineteen was very busy if for
you, my friend, you didFamily Obligations. Great movie you played Frank
I did. That was a Thatwas a movie we see about family and
(31:00):
being obligated to family. So Iwas playing a older person who was dying
and I had no family and excepta nephew, and the nephew we were
strained and never never dealt with thefamily. And now he he gets whined
that his father died, which wouldhave been my brother. His father dies
(31:23):
and they're doing a funeral and thenthey get a phone call because my brother
would have been taking me to mydoctor's a bar. So now there's nobody.
So now now film, he said, Now he's got to take responsibility
for me, and we kind ofbond over the over the course of of
the film, and then at theend he did short. You played Johnny
(31:47):
Carbone, The Usual Deal. Yes, that was a lot of fun.
That was a lot of fun.That was my first gangster, Yes,
and that was we filmed that inBrooklyn at a bar. Yeah, and
again a long day. It was. It was well into well into uh,
you know, talking about gangster.The next thing you did was a
(32:09):
TV series. You played a Doctorthat actually we were both in and we
filmed it, and I know Ifilmed it in baside mob mentality, which
looks like it's picking up again fromwhat I saw. I don't know access.
I'm just saying, but it's justsomething that we did. We didn't
have any scenes together, have anyscenes. Yeah, my scene. Actually
(32:30):
they only filmed the pilot. Yes, and uh, they were going to
have the scene with me in thepilot and they said, you know what,
let's hold it off to the nextepisode. And there was never another
episode. I was not aware thatthey were trying to revive it. Well,
I just saw I just saw somethingon Actors Access there there. Yeah,
(32:50):
well I would I would love tohave the role. Yeah, yeah,
yeah absolutely if isis did Jada isthe creator, director, producer,
showrunner, whatever you want to callit. So ices if you're listening,
I would love too for the doctorrole again. The Doctor Roll twenty twenty
did cover Drama, which was aTV series played Russell. No, No,
(33:15):
that wasn't a that was a no, that's what I have he No,
it wasn't a TV series. No, okay, it was a short.
I'm not really sure what it was. It was fun and interesting to
everything was shot point of view.Oh cool. So it was supposed to
be a dinner party. Yeah,and everybody and there was some cheating going
on and amongst the couples and stuff. So so uh, but everybody filmed
(33:39):
their scene on their own and thenhe put it together. So my daughter
actually helped me. She she shewas because there was pler. I had
to pick up the plates. Soshe was handing me the plates and I
was putting down and and uh.And then she was giving me the dialogue.
Yeah, and she was giving methe dialogue and it was it was
fun to work with. So yeah, So I'm not really sure what what
(34:02):
what what that guy's idea was.And I think he's I'm not sure.
I think they actually may be fromLondon. Uh, the people that that
created that, I'm not sure though, I could be wrong. And if
I'm sorry. Detective it says isit a d D NO A Wilderness of
(34:24):
era? Do you remember that?Oh? Yes, miniseries? Yeah,
and I I played detective in that, and uh, I never saw it.
That was about a McDonalds. Isaw to watch it and then I
got but that was about it's aboutthe murders. I believe it was in
(34:45):
the seventies. The McDonald's, notMcDonald's the restaurant. The family was the
McDonald's. Uh. The wife andthe two kids are murdered. He is
arrested and accused of the murder,and he has always maintained his innocence.
But there was a lot of alot of weird stuff, like there was
(35:06):
no forced entry, there was nothingto support him having not done. He
was a military guy. I thinkhe was also a doctor in the military.
I'm not sure it could be mistakenon that, but that was very
interesting to film and my my actualscene, I'm actually lip syncing. Really
(35:30):
yeah, they they they did it, so I guess someone else's voices the
real I don't know exactly. LikeI said, I never saw it,
but the wilderness yet it was aninteresting story. One you did Manhattan South,
which was that was a pilot.Yeah, that was a pilot I
did. Yes, that was astretch. That was yeah, always a
(35:51):
stretch. And Heidi Heidi Hecker wasmy was my partner for that and uh,
and that was funny there that wasthey wrote that scene. Chris Cardona,
he was he didn't create it,but he helped write it. And
and uh, and was working toget it produced. And he made this
scene a little comedic because it wasit was a crime scene. And then
(36:15):
Heidi was playing the neighbor who foundthe body. And I'm there guarding the
crime scene. So at the endI walk over and I kind of start
putting the moves on right. Soit was fun life conversation, midlife conversation,
which you played Mike de Luca.That was a short. And that
was with Maria. Uh. Yeah, well Maria Philippone is the director and
(36:38):
scatter wife. That was. Thatwas a great that Actually it's amazing how
art imitates life unbeknownst to me.I mean that story was actually my story.
And uh and I remember there's amonologue at the end and uh it
(37:00):
was very heartfelt. And I hadasked Maria to sit my wife in my
line of vision, so even thoughI was talking to to Gina, I
was actually looking at Kathy and Iwas I was delivering the line to her.
Didn't work because she's left me anyway. So John Godbagio, great comedic
(37:22):
short. Love it, Love it, Love it, I said, I
love it. That is that's believein Pat Maroon, Steve Leieve is a
great writer Maroon, and and he'sdoing he wants and he wants I think
I'm supposed to sling the secretary orsomething. Probably he mentioned it to me.
But Steve Beleieve is a great writer. And this is a spoof slash
(37:45):
takeoff of the Godfather. And we'reand we're garbage men, and we and
we we value garbage and and it'syou know, it's really great and and
you know what, it doesn't runvery long. Just I recommend you look
it up on YouTube don Barbargio andit's it's pretty funny. No. He
(38:05):
put it into some some film festivalsthat got picked up, and I'm very
happy that he's gonna do it asecond demosophy because it was it was great.
All right, So your first networkseries was Yes, Yes, that
was my first network series and youplayed a retired postal worker. Yes.
(38:29):
I mean it was nothing in thescene that would say, oh, he's
a postal worker, but that's whatthey had. So I was, now,
is that how you got your sag? No? No, how'd you
get I got my sag? Becauseafter sag, excuse me, after bull
I did a movie, yeah,with Michael Zagen called Zookay. I don't
(38:52):
believe it ever came out. Okay, okay, Michael Zagan was the husband
in Marvelous Missus Mason. So Iplayed a doorman and so so I got
that. So now that made mesag eligible because I had the two right,
and then I got East New Yorkand that made me sag Yeah,
(39:15):
a must joint. Do we havea pick of you and Pee Wee Herman,
which we didn't put up before,But tell me how that happened?
And you were on the job atthe time, I was, Yes,
that was that's in Times Square.I'm going to say probably somewhere twenty ten.
He brought back his one man show, the Pee Wee's Playhouse, right
right, and he was doing thatand at the end he would come out
(39:37):
and he would sign autographs. AndI was a big Pee Wee Herman fan.
Yeah, absolutely, I love PeeWee Herman. And so he took
up he took a picture with letme see the next pick. What's the
next pick after that one? Wegot after Pee Weee, after Pee Wee
Herman. Nope, nope, theone above it, nope, that one
(40:07):
that's well, that's East New York. That's that was that was recent,
Yes, that was they may haveApril of twenty twenty three and may it
had Mother's Day May fourteenth of twentytwenty two. And that's so that's Richard
kind thank you and no pun intendedthe nicest man. Yeah, you could
ever meet yah and uh. Inbetween takes we would sit and talk and
(40:31):
and he would uh he was hewas interested in the fact that I was
a stand up comedian. Yeah,And it was a great, great experience
on that show. I got towork with with four of the leads in
the one scene and it was nice. Uh, and they were all so
just so nice. How how differentis doing network TV as as opposed to
(40:57):
as to opposed to I mean,anything else you've done, it's it's it's
a lot of fun, it's alot of work because you know, they're
on a timeframe, so they wantto get everything done so so there's not
a lot of retakes, so theyreally want you to hit it as quickly
as possible. They'll do retakes forsafety and maybe a different shot, and
(41:21):
they're very they they want you tobe as as word perfect as possible.
You know, you know, youand I have a thing about that because
I work very hard to keep minetogether. And then you know, he's
helped me with some auditions and he'slike, I got to really keep it,
keep it. I try to keepit as close as close to word
perfect as possible. I mean sometimesthey'll give you depending on the word.
(41:44):
Like I remember in in in EastNew York. I kept saying there was
a line there where I said,oh, I I just I just made
a note, and he said,you can't say just because it sounds like
you just did it. It's aprevious note. Yeah, you know,
so so little things like that.It doesn't sound like much when you're when
you're delivering it, but then yourealize it changes the meaning. Well that's
(42:06):
the whole thing. Just one word, one word, right. I know
with independent films that I've done,the directors have been very loose and they're
they're like, yes, as longas you're not as long as you're getting
the intent of the scene and theintent of the lines, yeah, will
you know, we'll work with youon it. Yeah. You did very
(42:27):
COVID Christmas. You played Santa,You played Sana. Yeah, that was
a lot of fun. That wasa short, that was just a quick
short. It was because of thesupply chain issues that were going on with
China. Yes, and I didthat with Alex McKay. Yeah, and
I haven't seen Alex in forever.Yeah. And we were in Chris Cardona's
acting class together and he was myhead elf. I was Santa, right,
(42:50):
and of course I was, youknow, nasty, yelling, screaming,
not the Santa that you wouldn't expectto see at the mall. Oh
my god, twenty two. Youdid you Club and then you did so
Fortunate Fortunate Fortunado and you played SalvatoreEsposito. And that was also with Michael
(43:10):
Fideli correct. And I believe he'sthe writer of that. I believe that
his movie. And I played hisbrother, Yes, and uh in the
movie, he's he's a screw up, you know, he's that one.
You know that that one family member. We all have it as much as
(43:30):
they tried. The only it wasn'tfor bad luck to have no luck.
And I'm not going to give itaway because it's as short. I recommend
you watch it. It was agreat movie. Deborah Markowitz was was part
of that as well, and h. E J. E J. Costa
and uh, he was in itas also. It was, it was
(43:53):
and we filmed that at least ourscenes we filmed at the upstairs with the
Belmour movie. Yeah, yeah,yeah, yeah, So it was.
It was a lot of fun,and it was it was natural because we
were talking in the movie and thescene we're talking about, Hey, remember
when we used to roll the meatbulls with Grandpa and yeah, and and
I remember that, I mean mygrandparents. My grandfather didn't roll the meat
(44:15):
bulls, but I remember watching mygrandmother and my mother make the meat bulls
on a Sunday and making the sauceand absolutely, so it was. It
was, It was fun. Itwas a bit nostalgic. My sister's weddings
wedding played yes, yes, father, and that was done with I feel
(44:35):
bad, I'm drawing a blank.It's in the garage productions. Ken Frank
was the director and he was alsowas a director and writer of both that
and Family Obligations. Yes. FamilyObligation, Yes, which we touched on.
Family Obligations was a great, greatmovie. I really loved doing it
(44:59):
and I like work and with Kenyaand his wife Shanna touch you play Coach
Dorby. Yes, that was astudent film. Yeah, and I play
always fun to do that, andit's actually they I just it's so funny
you bring that up because I justgot an email saying that they released it
on YouTube. Oh cool. AndI and I play this like yelling,
(45:20):
screaming, militant type high school coachand these kids are slackers and I am
not having it. Yeah, andit's it's uh, it was a lot
of fun, so cool. Twentytwenty three, again busy, Busy,
busy, we showed the pick fromEast New York. You played a parole
officer, Yes, Phil Gustavsu Yes. And then we get to it's love,
(45:43):
bro, It's love, and it'sin love bro. You and I
you can show them, Yeah,yeah, we go. That was We
filmed actually at my house in thekitchen. We filmed in the dining room,
and we filmed in the living room. And that is you and I.
We had so much fun we didwith that movie. And the movie
is doing very well. It wasin a Bunch of Fur and Frank Fayela.
If you scroll down one we wereboth up for best Comedic Performance and
(46:07):
it went to Frank and I wasso thrilled. I know you were,
and I and I thank you forthat, But I really felt that it
should have been it should have beena it should have been a team thing.
And and because you're only as goodas your scene partner, and the
comedy doesn't work one way, ithas sea thing about our scene. Why
don't we show one of our scenesfrom the movie. All right, it's
(46:28):
love bro. Here we are.I can't hear him. You know,
you know what you're doing. You'reholding it wrong. Guys. Okay there
now you can see him? Okay, Hi, Hi, honey, Hi,
guys, I can't see you.You look great? Yeah, yeah,
we see you fine. No,no, no, I can't see
(46:50):
you. Why is he so long? Speak up? So? So how's
Florida? Oh it's beautiful. Shewon't turn off the air conditioning. It's
very hot in New York. Toblasted the heat off? Lordia blasts the
air condition You are never happy.Look who's talking? You know we're trying
to talk to baby. What you'redoing is complaining. You're the one complaining.
(47:13):
So when I'm dead, shut offthe acne. Well, at least
I'll save some money on the electricbill. So, honey, have you
thought about moving down here anymore?I love it. It was so funny.
It was it was great. Thatwas film in my living room and
(47:36):
we had another scene and it wasa lot of fun. And I have
to say you and I got reallyreally beautiful accolades from people who saw it.
They were like, we wanted moreof the mother and father, especially
at the very very end. Ican't tell you what happens, but they
want to see. I guess ourreaction to what happened to how Sun.
But this is a great film.George Massimilla. George is watching maybe A
(48:00):
maybe A part two of its StillLove, and it focuses on the parents.
It's still love or they're still together, still love. It. I
like that. I like that.Frank. Yeah, it was funny because
they were asking about seeing us more, but it was it was so much
fun. And again George Mussinilla forgiving us the opportunity. It was great.
Hey, listen, let's take mylast break and when we come back
(48:22):
more with Frank, don't go away. We'll be back after this wonder woman
was everything to little girls, especiallythat looked like me. She stands for
(48:44):
being a voice for people that needa voice. My organization renovates homes for
people with disabilities and when I comehome, a self care routine makes me
feel my best. I'm very proudof the difference that we're making. It.
To see that impact in my communityinspires me to work even harder for
everyone around me. Hey, everybody, it's Teresa from teen Times. What's
(49:12):
my show about? I interview peoplein the entertainment industry, producers, directors,
actors, and guess what. Myshow is on every Saturday morning at
ten am on Channel twenty on OptimumTV. So tune in because it's fun,
interesting and exciting. Nah, who'sthe best comedian? You know?
(49:42):
Teresa Barrow? And who you know? And whoy Jisa Barrow? Terresa Barrow?
Who's Teresa Barrow? Now Terresa Beryl? All right, I love you.
(50:06):
Hey everybody, Welcome back to teTim Frank Fayella. He's an actor,
writer, comedian and my on screenhobby. Shout out to Anne watching
and Michael Nowtton and Bruno and Gregand Michelle everyone watching. Thank you please
like tea time, please share it. So yeah. So then we did
Graveyard Medium also together. We hadno scenes together, but we were in
(50:27):
that. That's also Maria Philippone andthat was a wonderful short that we did.
You played Joe, Yes and thehobby, the husband and the family's
feud. Now you played Nick thebarber. I did, and there were
times when we land rolls, andthere's times that we end up on the
cutting floor. Unfortunately they had tocut that scene. Yes, but you
(50:50):
did your scene with Joe Dinafrea.Yes, I was the barber. He
was in the chair. Yeah.And in the scene he's talking all big
and tough and right and he wassupposed to get whacked in the chair.
Yeah. You know, the guycomes in and I just stepped back and
then they stick an ice pick.And that was with Stu and yes,
(51:12):
shout out to that. Unfortunately,I apologize watching I don't recall her last
name, but Bruce Soosha, I'mnot going to say it right. So,
well, that's the other day.I don't know if it was.
And then okay, so now wehave like three minutes left. So we're
in something together coming up called It'sAll About Me, which is with Millie
Michaels and again Maria Philip Palm.We're going to be filming that hopefully in
August. It's supposed to be Augusttwelfth, I believe is the unofficial.
(51:36):
Okay, I'll be filming my sceneanother day because I won't be here.
Yeah, but we're not in anyscenes together, but we're in the project
together. So I wanted to,you know, give a shout out to
Millie and Marie about that as well. And what else do you have coming
up, my friend, because wehave three minutes. Well, I submitted
an audition today for Lord the Equalize. Yes, yes, singers, Cross
(52:00):
Cross cross everything. I'm having agood year with auditions. Wait. Commercial,
Hello, you were in a major, major commercial that everybody and their
mother sees. You would you liketo tell everyone what the commercial is?
That's the Whites and Luxembourg asbestost commercial. Actually we did a commercial. We
didn't pull it for the show,but we did that cleaning air duct commercial.
(52:20):
Oh yes, yes, yes,and where we play husband and wife
and that with our son. Yeah, and you believe is in that and
John Roki. Yeah, we hada great time. Yes, So telling
about these three things that are coming. So I have a comedy show for
Laughter Saves Lives, a great organization, and that will be at Domenico's on
(52:43):
July twelfth. I believe it's sixtyfive dollars per person, but includes dinner
and the show. And then onJuly thirteenth, I have a show at
Governor's with It was a good lineupwith Seiku Ali, who's also a police
officer. We did not work togetheras as cops, but we we got
to know each other through comedy.So he's producing that that said Governors in
(53:06):
the giggle Room on on July thirteenth. Tickets for that would need to be
purchased in advance if you want togo, so go to the website.
Yeah. And then on the eighteenth, eighteenth, I'm doing a show at
the Gaston Street Pub. I believethat's a patchog or hot pog. I'm
not exactly sure which one. Andthat's with Terry perett Terry perett Is is
a very very funny comedy hypnotist andhe does his his routine. I want
(53:35):
to be well, I want to, I don't. I want to hate
chocolate and I want well, No, he doesn't do that, and I
don't want to be yah, hedoesn't. He doesn't do that. What
does he do? He does comedy? So he has comedy. Well,
he doesn't do behavior modifications I needbut that's not what his thing is.
So he has u scenarios. Hehas scenarios and and he gets people from
(53:57):
the audience to come out. AndI really it's definitely different for a different
type of show. Yeah, I'llbe doing opening the show, you know,
good ten to fifteen minutes of comedationand bringing him on and good.
A lot of great place is inpatch talk out there. Yes, yes,
so that's what I got going on. That's good. I'm excited.
(54:19):
I'm listen. Oh my god,it's so so fast. It does,
doesn't it. Yes, Oh,we had a good time. I did
always do. Anytime we get together, we have sue. It's so true.
Well listen, thank you for comingon, thanks and catching up.
Let's not wait another five years.Oh no, we're sona sona and we'll
be working together anyway. Listen.I want to thank everyone for watching tea
time. I appreciate it your support. Remember, tell everyone you love you
(54:44):
love them, and I'll see younext week. Everybody, chow one name
(55:04):
bout town s.
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